we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become. a former cia officer who blew the whistle on america's story program on bizarre waiting to serve turned a hall of years in prison talks to r.t. about what he believes is behind his sentence. and also the size the french military operation in mali is a success we'll bring you some chilling stories from the three week long battle against islam it's. still assuming to retaliate for an israeli airstrike inside its territory while its ally iran says they'll be no repercussions are without. international news and common live from moscow this is us he was me you dish thanks

for joining us. i thought one cia officer turned whistle blower was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars is waiting to start his jail time john kiriakou was the first official to publicly confound the agency's use of waterboarding and condemn it and torture so he was convicted for revealing a covert officers identity journalist although in one of his final interviews before being locked away he told us he his crime was simply speaking out against the government. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but

once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few

weeks. every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. and john kiriakou was was a guest on abbey moss is breaking the said he on else he said don't miss the extensive interview details of the case and its implications later today do you think that the the real people who oversaw codified torture john yoo alberto gonzales and donald rumsfeld shouldn't they be the ones sitting in prison john think they should be the ones and there are others even if you just put aside the people who actually did the day to day torture what about the people who conceived of the policy and who implemented the policy were the attorneys that papered over it with with crazed legal analysis or the man who who destroyed evidence of the torture in the tapes.

france is having its military mission against is going to troubles in mali as a success but this three week long intervention has also created more havoc in the conflict all country cheating stories are emerging as local reporter. told r.t. . that out what if that's but the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the segura region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists are right sweeping south towards the capital of america the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who were left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. bill a tail number one brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back

into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but minutes and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets that we can we believe his body in the house so we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. afaik just because this is just one example of the terror that the conflict erupted in mali and civilians through plague and weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. so the french bank tomalin government forces are increasingly accused of atrocities during the conflict with the rebels and on r.t. dot com you'll find some exclusive images already and allegedly showing evidence of war crimes by the troops there also have more stories from people on the ground about how they're living through the western led battle against islamist. us president barack obama's pick for the country's next defense secretary has gone

out of his way to persuade the senate has the right man for the job want to target for his previous statements at the confirmation hearing chuck hagel made it clear he will act in accordance with white house policies if his candidacy is approved what he is going educator can listen to the session which brought some heated discussion but little hope of change. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on israel and iran there was so much mentioning of israel that at some

point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible by the way here's what chuck hagel kept repeating throughout the hearing get the united nations behind you get the international sanctions behind you keep military options on the table if the military option is the only option it's the only option one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel recently told him that he thought sanctions didn't work and previously chuck hagel voted against sanctions but today's chuck hagel as we found out during this hearing is for sanctions to those who believe mr haye go was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was he offered a correction a very vague one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he

said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engaging in gauge mint is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not sure under so no direct negotiations with iran here's another example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of prevents this. statements at one time he said and this is become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel and of quote here's chuck hagel during this confirmation hearing noted that i. thought i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand or

appreciate their differing views in these things it was like torture watching the hearing because it seemed as if the senators were not there to question chuck hagel but they were there to break him because they kept going back to his previous statements and pushing and pushing until he said what they wanted to hear and he did it so whoever thought chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s. foreign policy after this hearing would seriously doubt that. and we always want to know what you think on the topics we cover and do you had to vote in our online poll to let us know why you think hey girls stance on iran has become more hawkish and here they are right now what we're seeing the options that were offering you right now is admitting a strike on iran is a viable option so it's a genuine change of heart also the second option is just a ploy to counter criticism of being anti is really also his chance to his

stance he doesn't matter. change of heart doesn't matter because he wouldn't have influence on iran policy anyway and the last one it proves his own claim that no one can stand up to the jewish lobby and let's now have a look how you have voted so far almost a half of voters think hey girls given in to be pressure on assad have you believe his opinion doesn't make any difference. as a troll a little less say that it's just a ploy to get the job and only a tiny minority of you think that he has genuinely changed his position to go to r.t. dot com and cast your vote under water the prompter's the change hey goals are a trick many experts believe even if he wants to change u.s. foreign policy he'll struggle to do so. president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope to mizzen was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the

politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people that fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that every secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spending us into oblivion. iraq is carrying a communications satellite has fallen into the pacific ocean shortly after blasting off from a sea based launch site its reporters the rocket followed the wrong possum. said takeoff and. joined lies by igor pissed off he's here with me in the

studio so you go and hello there so what's actually gone well that they stand around well view rocket blasted off from the odyssey floating platform there you'll see just in the matter of seconds there seems that everything was going ok but actually from the very start it went off course triggering an emergency system which shut down its engines and the rocket and including this communications satellites by the u.s. dished into the pacific ocean somewhere along the equator line and now a committee of experts are trying to establish what exactly led it to go off its initial project week but why was. actually launched from a platform in the ocean well the thing is on the equator the earth's rotation speed provides an additional boost to our rockets allowing them to carry more weight and launching from the platform besides just looking awesome

it also gives you so many spots on the equator to choose from and minimize the risks of rockets falling down on inhabited areas this launch project is an international one we russia the united states norway and ukraine it's been established in one thousand nine hundred five there's been thirty four successful watches throughout the year throughout the year rather but this year this was supposed to be the first one unfortunately it was unsuccessful gore thank you very much indeed for opposing that and of course of course we'll bring you more details as soon as we get them and still ahead for you this hour the catholic church in germany loses worship a. softer more and more like cases of child abuse by priests in the headlines. salacious our hold on the risks of genetically modified food but why its main producers might not have anything to worry about that and much more after

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economy. this is also he welcomed by syria and iran us rushing into a tirade against is row four rather air strike on syria territory cigarette claims israeli warplanes hit a military research center near damascus killing two while the u.s. says the jets targeted a military convoy heading for neighboring lebanon pointlessly is monitoring developments for us from tel aviv. the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you it would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syrian sources is

that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two unsigned workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel obvious intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not be named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these friends were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria but we have no comment yet from television also has been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these raids did strike inside syrian territory it is

a gross violation of the united nations charter. bring in economic and political analyst mohammad miranda says a zero should take iran's warning of repercussions seriously but it's important is that the united states knew about their strike beforehand they did nothing about it the european union as usual is silent about it there is no condemnation for killing syrians two for bombing the country and of course iran world the syrian sovereignty iran and many means to hurt israelis and to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support countries or bodies that could make life for israelis more difficult. and less not under some of the international news in brief this hour an explosion as killed twenty people and left more than one hundred injured at the mexico city

headquarters of pemex the state owned oil company the figures have been confirmed on the company's twitter account some people reportedly remain trapped inside the building local media say a gas leak may have caused the blast in september an explosion at the company's natural gas facility in northern mexico left social people dead. government opposition in egypt is calling for further mass protests on friday that's just prior to reaching an agreement with the muslim brotherhood to renounce the violence and demonstrations across the country the condemnation came at a meeting attended by government officials as well as the heads of the liberal and secular opposition movements at least sixty people have been killed in demonstrations marking the second anniversary of president mubarak so let's work. understand of between police and a man holding a five year old child hostage in a bunker and rural alabama has entered its third day the boy was taken earlier this

week when a gunman shot dead a school bus driver after who fused to lead the youngster over the vehicle this is back to kidnap a is a retired sixty five year old truck driver the boy is apparently unharmed. in germany washed turning their backs on the casket church with a number of attendees falling rapidly at the saved a lot of action over claims of child abuse is just one reason earlier this month charges dropped an investigation into alleged sexual abuse cases committed by priests and unified some of the details and peter all of his reports disturbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was

a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have

a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also the twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with senior clergy over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back into the flock and then. moving and when we do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste that something is being

covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. and one for jaime for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot in a church again he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all of a r.t. germany. and of course there's always more news for you online including on god that says north korean actually imposes martial law it's on the to prepare for war so had to alter dot com to see if they call in phonies he lays on the brink of a military conflict. that uses the web millions of devices and alan danger of being enemies it takes. software malfunction that's been on about for some time.

actually as have protested outside the shareholder meeting at the headquarters of one of america's not torah's genetically modified food producers monsanto protesters demanded more transparency in the company's labeling research and to business practices and made concerns over the safety of g.m. crops but adam shareholder animal center believes as long as such companies financially support politicians and the risk that they brushed under the carpet. these chemicals may be what's causing higher rates of cancer and industrialization nations across the globe we note have caused tumors in rats that were fed in long term food studies last year i was it will speak during the meeting and this meeting is closed to the public and we one of the things the recipe for is in the future to

speak live streamed people around the world care about what's going into the food they may not want to own mindset a stock i only bought stocks like it's this year or maybe the company knows already about their genetically modified crops which many say food activists believe make us more rely on herbicides and chemicals that they can't but he also sells the companies give huge massive donations to politicians and it will be says. they are very active in the political system so they spending tens of millions of dollars even hundreds of millions of dollars are elections. the it's not the politicians are not going to prioritize rejecting crops. and more international news around the site's minutes for you to and after a short break it's on a special report overloads and he took out a stair. hear

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